How I built my side hustle to quit my full-time job [Video]

Carter Osborne spent two months agonizing over whether to leave his full-time job for his tutoring side hustle.

He did both jobs simultaneously for five years. But in August 2023, he was promoted to director at his public relations firm, giving him more responsibility. At the same time, his side hustle — editing high school seniors’ college admissions essays — had grown large enough that between the two gigs, he was working 70 hours per week, he says.

The side gig netted him more than $114,000 last year, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It — effectively doubling his salary, he says. By that November, he was looking for a new full-time job — and realized none of his options had “that deep, passionate, resonate feeling that education has,'” says Osborne, 29.

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Then, one of his tutoring students was accepted to his first-choice school: Pitzer College, a private liberal arts …